This was a post I meant to make when it was still in theaters, but I missed my window. However, now it’ll be coming out for home viewing, so I figured now is as good of a time as any:

All POC in the film are played by people who are actually of that race

This article talks about how the director had everyone do cowboy stuff, even when not filming, but more importantly when he was given a list of mostly white actors for a potential cast, he went out of his way to make it racially diverse

Strong, powerful female character who is surrounded by 7 testosterone-filled cowboys and none of them make a move on her

Nor does she go thirsting after them

Much of the violence is heavily implied/doesn’t show a ton of blood, yet still super bad ass, leaving it to be a nice balance for both squeamish and bloodthirsty viewers alike

Chris Pratt does magic tricks

A great example of a genre movie being updated with modern day film techniques, but not going super duper overboard and adding like laser robots and shit just because they can

Support POC directors!

Don’t want to hear any racial slurs, even though they’re “historically accurate”? Fear not, there are none in this movie! (x)

Today’s lesson on White Privilege in America. A white man can shoot multiple people in a movie theater and still be painted as a “good guy” in the media. Meanwhile, a black man can get shot and killed in a library and the police can withhold evidence to create an excuse for shooting a man in a library.

i like theatre kids because they will never let “what team??” go unanswered. walk into any dressing room and ask “what team” and like every theatre kid in a hundred mile radius is going to scream “wILDCATS”